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ELDER MUSIC: Chattanooga Choo Choo

You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste... Read More...

Published Sun, May 30 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 6 May 2017

PRESIDENT OBAMA ON CRITICISM AND FERVOR Shortly before he left the presidency, Barack Obama sat down for an extensive interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss what it is like to be a symbol of power and the recipient of people's... Read More...

Published Sat, May 06 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The 2008 Oldest Old Project: Saul Friedman

Five years ago, I asked some bloggers and TGB readers who were then at least 80 years old to tell us “young 'uns” how they and their lives had changed in the 20-plus years since they were 60. It was... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 02 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Music Festival Age Discrimination

Were you at Woodstock? I was – but that was only the largest among other music festivals and concerts I attended, each packed with crowds, camaraderie, plenty of weed and most of all, great music. If, sometimes, performances in that... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 15 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Myths About Our Ageing Brains

EDITORIAL NOTE: Today is a holiday in the U.S. and I'm giving myself a little extra time off – mostly by republishing a post from AARP. If, like me, you're one of the people who have issues with AARP, calm... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 04 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: New Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and...

Published Sat, Jul 10 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Driving – Let's Get Serious

EDITORIAL NOTE: Jim of jimsjournal blog sent in his photo and information to be included in the Where Elders Blog list. You can see his entry here and look at a whole lot more of them here. If you would... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 05 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Favorite Vacations

I've known since last week that this one would be busier than usual: meetings with several potential reverse mortgage lenders, a lot of reverse mortgage homework, some plumbing work here to oversee and several other obligations – in addition to.....

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 5:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 14 October 2017

HOW ELDERS ARE GETTING BY IN PUERTO RICO This week, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that he is ready to abandon the American citizens of Puerto Rico. When he said this on Tuesday, FEMA estimated that 36 percent of the... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 14 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Contest Winners and Cancer Update

SOCIAL SILVER SURFERS EBOOK WINNERS On Friday, I wrote about a new eBook reporting on a survey about how elders use the internet. One of the authors, Erin Read who is a friend of mine, offered to give away three... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 02 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Growing Old with Grace

Recently, I've been running across a lot of online writing about growing old with grace. Most of them are saccharine and say the same few things: Stay active Be social Serve others Laugh Some throw in the phrase “stay in... Read More...

Published Tue, May 14 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

House Calls, Telemedicine and Medicare

Medicare is in the third year of testing its Independent at Home demonstration project to see if it can improve care and cut costs for some of its more frail patients with house calls. The idea is to test ”...how... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 26 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

60 is Not the New 40

Nor 70 the new 50 but people are still trying to sell that to us. If you pay too much attention to media chatter, you can easily be convinced that old age is a nice, smooth continuation of midlife. If... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Chooks

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 05 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 15 June 2013

JOHN OLIVER'S DOING GREAT - - on The Daily Show while Jon Stewart is off for the summer directing a movie in the Middle East. I watched all four shows this week and was not disappointed in the least. Of... Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 15 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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